Prof Clay
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I am wish to express my thanks to everyone this weekend at World's. Taylor and I had a great time and what Pokemon-USA pulled off should make everyone who did not attend this year, find some way of going next year, just to say they went and participated in some way. The banners, the table cloths, the color coordinated ID tags...everything made this a special weekend.
Friday night we were expecting a "small" reception with some sandwiches and cokes and a few table. No one expected the Tiki / south american themed dinner that we got. Waiters in full dress, fountains, lights, servers carving turkey and roast beef, and deserts. Man that was impressive.
The Pokemon Rocks outside the hotel was so impressive too. Great photo ops for everyone
I went to support Taylor and ended up not playing very much, but boy did she and I both have a great time. I went thinking I would play and play and play, but I think I only got in 3 games. Too much worrying about my girl. Lemme tell you...its one thing to have stress while playing, its a whole different thing when its your kid playing and you cant help.
I guess 4th place in 10- is not too bad for a girl who managed to lose her deck Friday night. No..on second thought 4th is fabulous. She never expected to get anywhere close to that far and the 10- field was filled with as much tough competition as the others. Many many many thanks go out to Meganium45 and Newman for the assist in putting it back together. There is some slime out there who got a good selection of SwampertEX, Swanperts, Rare candies and other supporters. If you read this I hope you choke on them
. Just want you to know you stole from a 10 year old girl and I hope your proud.
After some adversity in the semis, I was so proud of how Taylor got her self back together and managed to put up a decent fight against Akira in the consolation match for 3rd place. She lost, but from her face, you would never know it. She was smiling and even though they couldn't talk directly, you could tell she was having fun. (it was especially kind of funny when she corrected Akiras placement of his supporter at turns end once). Kids that age can be so resilient. After the awards ceremony Akira and his dad came over and Akira gave Taylor one of the green Rayquaza wristbands some of the Japanese players had and allowed her to chose a card straight out of his binder. That was awesome on their part.
To all the judges and Dave, you did a great job. I know that everyone was doing what they had to do and what a tough job that can be sometimes. I think Taylor learned alot Sunday, just a tough way to learn it.
Again..to all those who made everything work so fabulously...Thanks and we will do it again next year.
Poke_Dad
Friday night we were expecting a "small" reception with some sandwiches and cokes and a few table. No one expected the Tiki / south american themed dinner that we got. Waiters in full dress, fountains, lights, servers carving turkey and roast beef, and deserts. Man that was impressive.
The Pokemon Rocks outside the hotel was so impressive too. Great photo ops for everyone
I went to support Taylor and ended up not playing very much, but boy did she and I both have a great time. I went thinking I would play and play and play, but I think I only got in 3 games. Too much worrying about my girl. Lemme tell you...its one thing to have stress while playing, its a whole different thing when its your kid playing and you cant help.
I guess 4th place in 10- is not too bad for a girl who managed to lose her deck Friday night. No..on second thought 4th is fabulous. She never expected to get anywhere close to that far and the 10- field was filled with as much tough competition as the others. Many many many thanks go out to Meganium45 and Newman for the assist in putting it back together. There is some slime out there who got a good selection of SwampertEX, Swanperts, Rare candies and other supporters. If you read this I hope you choke on them
. Just want you to know you stole from a 10 year old girl and I hope your proud.After some adversity in the semis, I was so proud of how Taylor got her self back together and managed to put up a decent fight against Akira in the consolation match for 3rd place. She lost, but from her face, you would never know it. She was smiling and even though they couldn't talk directly, you could tell she was having fun. (it was especially kind of funny when she corrected Akiras placement of his supporter at turns end once). Kids that age can be so resilient. After the awards ceremony Akira and his dad came over and Akira gave Taylor one of the green Rayquaza wristbands some of the Japanese players had and allowed her to chose a card straight out of his binder. That was awesome on their part.
To all the judges and Dave, you did a great job. I know that everyone was doing what they had to do and what a tough job that can be sometimes. I think Taylor learned alot Sunday, just a tough way to learn it.
Again..to all those who made everything work so fabulously...Thanks and we will do it again next year.
Poke_Dad
